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Meridian - #16 - Calculate with Africa: Transforming the world through mathematics - with Dr. Dominic Bunnett and Marwa Zainelabdeen

Meridian - #16 - Calculate with Africa: Transforming the world through mathematics - with Dr. Dominic Bunnett and Marwa Zainelabdeen

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 Mathematics serves as an engine for innovation across a broad spectrum of applications – from sustainable energy and mobility to health to artificial intelligence. Mathematicians provide the foundations for the use of the ever-growing amounts of data in other disciplines, seeking solutions for future challenges. But how can cooperation with the Global South in mathematics contribute to finding solutions for global challenges? How does international cooperation, for instance with Africa, look like? What do mathematicians do and is maths really a universal language? In this episode, Kevin Caners discusses how mathematics can transform the world with Dr Dominic Bunnett and Marwa Zainelabdeen, both members of the Cluster of Excellence MATH+, a collaboration of FU, HU, and TU Berlin, the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) and the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). MATH+ has ties with African institutions, such as the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS).

„International cooperation is the absolute most important and most enjoyable part of one’s research. You cannot get as far by yourself. You are limited by your own mind,“ states Dominic Bunnett.

Dominic Bunnett is a postdoc at TU Berlin working in algebraic geometry and member of the program committee for the Young African Mathematicians program of the Cluster of Excellence MATH+.

Marwa Zainelabdeen is a MATH+ doctoral student at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics and Freie Universität Berlin and lecturer at the University of Khartoum, Sudan.

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